Page 68 of Amethyst and Iron
“It’s… it’s dark…”
“Not underyourcommand.”
I shrieked and thrust more of my might into it, the lightning spreading and ripping through our surroundings, sparking all around.
“You don’t know that.”
“I do. And so do you. Do not let others determine who and what you are. They know not what they speak of.”
I stared out at him.
He was… he was incredible.
I staggered back, snuffing out my power, which given the level of it, took a few moments of intensity to actually manage.
I watched the actual marks of my magic that had been unleashed into the environment dissipating—my frost, the storm clouds that I’d gathered with my lightning, and thedestabilization of the snowy winds my shadows had caused. Ryker’s defensive magic spell working its will.
Cassius turned to me frowning. “You are done? Already?”
I stormed toward him.
He tensed, his brow furrowing deeper.
When I was just a couple of feet out, I launched myself at him.
He caught me easily with a single hand, and I linked my arms around his neck and crushed my mouth to his.
It wasn’t soft and reverent this time.
It was deep, ferocious even.
And absolutely all-consuming.
When I broke the kiss, we were both panting, his hand that was holding me up and splayed across my ass was trembling with desperate need.
Need he’d clearly been curtailing with everything that had happened lately.
Even though I’d been staying at his place, we hadn’t… gotten physical… at least not beyond a soft touch or a brief kiss.
“Let it out too,” I told him.
“You are certain? You are not used to aggressive lovemaking from me.”
I smirked and leaned in, scraping my teeth over his jaw.
A thrill went through me when he released a guttural growl and dug his fingers into my hips.
“Mmm… as you wish, my ferocious queen.”
I saw a spark of his magic directed behind me.
I didn’t get to see what it was because he took me down to the ground.
But then Ifeltit.
He’d conjured a thick blanket on the snow.
The jarring nature of his movements and the delicious forcefulness of it sucked the breath from my lungs.
